The Perfect Storm of Tectonic Forces Iceland is the only inhabited island in the world where tectonic plates and ocean ridge ...

A new study of the Earth's mantle beneath the ocean near Iceland provides the most convincing evidence yet that simple buoyancy of hot, partially molten rocks can play an important role in causing ...

Iceland is known as ‘the land of fire and ice’ for a reason. Iceland’s volcanic activity is generally tame compared with explosive eruptions along the Pacific’s Ring of Fire. This time, it’s shaking ...

Last night allowed me only, I don't know, three hours of sleep, so my lucidity might be a little off today. I'm also a little giddy after getting my paper on using zircon to unravel the magmatic ...

An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea ...

A program designed to study the mid-ocean ridge system and enhance understanding of the relationship between the geological processes that lead to planetary renewal in the deep ocean and life forms ...

A potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could trigger a modern-day ice age, with winter ...

Preface / W. Roger Buck...[et al] -- Global systematics of mid-ocean ridge morphology / Christopher Small -- Linkages between faulting, volcanism, hydrothermal activity and segmentation on fast ...